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• Monday, January 12, 2009 12:29 PM

  Bill Owen

  My argument is not that Bush and Obama do not want to attack Iran, or that they won't give Israel the green light to do it because they don't want to do it, but that we are already attacking Iran, covertly, through the $300 Million given to the shadow government by the Democrat controlled Congress. It is Low Intensity Conflict, the United State's preferred method of regime change for a long time. In order to keep the program going, it is necessary to keep the threat alive, i.e. the propaganda, i.e. Iran is developing a nuclear weapon (even though the 11/07 NIE says otherwise). It is The Big Lie.

  According to the Cockburn article:

  Six weeks ago, President Bush signed a secret finding authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime that, according to those familiar with its contents, "unprecedented in its scope."

  Bush’s secret directive covers actions across a huge geographic area – from Lebanon to Afghanistan – but is also far more sweeping in the type of actions permitted under its guidelines – up to and including the assassination of targeted officials. This widened scope clears the way, for example, for full support for the military arm of Mujahedin-e Khalq, the cultish Iranian opposition group, despite its enduring position on the State Department's list of terrorist groups.

  It is a big program. According to CNN, Bush shared intel regarding Iran with Israel, Israel backed off, and the United States' LIC against Iran continues. Where/How/When was that intel gathered, and who paid for it? Iran will still go down in the long run, and its nuclear program with it, it will just be slower than dropping bombs on them. Everyone "benefits".

  Direct invasion of a sovereign state has never in fact been America's favoured method. In the main, it has preferred what it has described as 'low intensity conflict'. Low intensity conflict means that thousands of people die but slower than if you dropped a bomb on them in one fell swoop. It means that you infect the heart of the country, that you establish a malignant growth and watch the gangrene bloom. When the populace has been subdued - or beaten to death - the same thing - and your own friends, the military and the great corporations, sit comfortably in power, you go before the camera and say that democracy has prevailed. This was a commonplace in US foreign policy in the years to which I refer.

  -Harold Pinter, RIP

  —Chris Sinnard Read Chris Sinnard's other letters
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